Zim
Excellent point about teaching little ones to read and know their letters at a very early age.
My wife was a stay at home mother. It was a sacrifice we made together to raise our children with MOM home to be there for them and teach them.. So we were a one income family all my life.
wife began reading to my daughters at age 1. At age 2 they were on our laps with little learning to read books on our laps open and pointing to the words we spoke. Repeatedly.... Then we graduated to slightly more older childrens books. Soon our 2 year old daughters could actually read the words of the books because they had learned by ROTE what words looked like and sounded like.
At Age 2 my oldest read a paragraph from the front page of the Cincinnati Enquirer Mewspaper..
When we sent her to kindergarten the teacher called home and told us there was nothing she could teach them. Would it be okay if they just sat in front of the class and read STORIES to the class. They were reading at a sixth grade level at that time. By third grade they were reading at high school level..
It is all about where parents puttheir priorities... We chose to put ours into our daughters so that when they grew up and became adults, they would be able to be self sufficient, educated, and not needing to take any man's crap. It worked well.
Both of my daughters are remarkably intelligent, leaders in their chosen fields, and continually adding yearly to their advanced learning and degrees. I now have two DOCTORS in the family.. ALL because we, mostly my wife, sat and read to them pointing out the words every single day of their childhood starting late age 1. And we did not stop.
READING and knowing what words mean is so critically foundational to anyone's ability to learn and succeed and grow in a field of endeavor..
Zim has nailed it with that post... My children are living proof... Likely De's son will be an example if De will just stay out of Joey's way. lol!! 
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